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US 6,786,429 B2Granted
Spout converter
AssigneeGlobe Union Industrial Corp.
InventorScott Ouyoung
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Abstract
A converter threaded to the sprout of a classical faucet made of metal to compromise the classical style of the faucet allows water be delivered either in gush or divergence; a separation cover being provided to separate the heat generated from hot water flowing through the converter to avoid burning the user; and a reducing design for the rotation point of the rotation connector to avoid hurting the user.
Claims1
A spout converter for a classical faucet, made of metal, is comprised of:
- a base holder, in disk shape, having an open top to define a space, inner wall threaded inside the space, multiple circular holes being provided on a base plate of the base holder, a trapezoid hollow stem being formed at a center of the base plate;
- a guide hole in a smaller diameter being formed on an upper part inside the stem and multiple gaps being cut at the top of the stem, and the lower part being related to a threaded hole in a greater diameter;
- a divergence gasket, in sheet disk;
- a circular hole being provided at the center of the gasket and placed on the base plate of the base holder, multiple studs as water outlets being formed at the bottom, and each stud penetrating through its corresponding circular hole in the base plate of the base holder;
- an adjustment holder, hollow, a coupling flange being provided with a threaded disk at a lower part and engaged into the base holder with its base edge contacting the divergence gasket, having its upper part formed as an insertion part in a smaller diameter, a female circular groove being provided to the coupling flange at where close to a top of the adjustment holder;
- a separation cover having a thin wall, made in conic shape, multiple latches being provided around the circumference at a bottom to lock up the circular groove of the adjustment holder;
- a coupling holder, in pillar shape, being placed in the insertion part of the adjustment holder, formed inside a trapezoid through hole, and inner wall being threaded;
- a diverter, in disk shape, a conic shaped divergence block protruding from a center of a top, multiple circular holes arranged around the divergence block at equal spacing between any two abutted holes, a connection tube internally threaded protruding below the center of a bottom of the diverter, an air guide flange with an inner slop being formed at where close to a disk circumference, the diverter being placed in an upper hole of the coupling holder, and the air guide flange being accommodated in a lower hole of the coupling holder;
- a plug, its upper part related to a threaded rod, its lower part related to a head in outer diameter greater than that of the guide hole of the stem from the base holder, the plug being inserted through a bottom of the stem, the guide hole and finally to the connection tube of the diverter,
- a rotation holder, hollow body, having both ends open, an upper open end in smaller diameter than that of a lower open end, inner wall being threaded, an upper part of the rotation holder being made in a conic shape and arc surface to define a passive rotation part, and the rotation holder being engaged to the coupling holder;
- a rotation connector, including a rotation ball, a hollow threaded rod containing a water way, a leak-proof ring being provided at a top, a positioning ring being provided at a bottom, the rotation connector being placed into the bottom of the rotation holder, the threaded rod penetrating and being exposed out of a top of a through hole in the rotation holder, a positioning washer being engaged to the threaded inner wall of the rotation holder to lock up the rotation connector in position;
- a pivoting bonnet, in cylindrical, a threaded pivoting hole in its top, a rotation shape in approximately semi-spherical shape being provided in a bottom, a threaded hole being provided upward in the center of the rotation space to be engaged to the threaded rod of the rotation connector, and a water inlet being formed connecting through the pivoting hole in the bonnet;
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- a stainer holder, related to a hollow pillar, having an opening in smaller diameter provided at its bottom, a strainer being placed in the bottom, an outer wall of an upper part of the holder being threaded, the strainer holder being engaged to the threaded hole at the bottom of the stem from the base holder.
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